Add a Comment
new posts in all blogs
By: Maryann Yin,
on 10/1/2015
Blog: Galley Cat (Mediabistro) (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: John Steinbeck, Maya Angelou, Vladimir Nabokov, William Faulkner, Banned Books Week, William Golding, H. G. Wells, Khaled Hosseini, Libraries, censorship, Add a tag
By: Jason Boog,
on 10/10/2011
Blog: Galley Cat (Mediabistro) (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: William Golding, Malcolm X, Jenny Diski, Occupy Wall Street, Paul Buhle, Richard Atwater, Libraries, Toni Morrison, Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, Ayn Rand, Add a tag
.jpeg?picon=3626)
By: Aaron Polson,
on 5/9/2011
Blog: The Other Aaron (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: great books, Stephen King, lord of the flies, william golding, Add a tag
Viewing: Blog Posts Tagged with: William Golding, Most Recent at Top [Help]
Results 1 - 4 of 4
By: Maryann Yin,
on 10/1/2015
Blog: Galley Cat (Mediabistro) (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: John Steinbeck, Maya Angelou, Vladimir Nabokov, William Faulkner, Banned Books Week, William Golding, H. G. Wells, Khaled Hosseini, Libraries, censorship, Add a tag
By: Carole Anne Carr,
on 5/13/2013
Blog: (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: Nabokov, Lord of the Flies, Tolstoy, William Golding, Add a tag
Blog: (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: Nabokov, Lord of the Flies, Tolstoy, William Golding, Add a tag
My spiritual director called this morning. A lovely man who visits once a month and as I no longer take church services we spend the time talking about books and poetry. After discussing Japanese poetry, we reached the subject of the Booker and the Nobel prize for literature. For many years I spent the week before the Booker Prize, at a college with others, trying to decide the winner.
24 Comments on An interesting Question from my Spiritual Director!, last added: 5/22/2013
Display Comments
Add a Comment
By: Jason Boog,
on 10/10/2011
Blog: Galley Cat (Mediabistro) (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: William Golding, Malcolm X, Jenny Diski, Occupy Wall Street, Paul Buhle, Richard Atwater, Libraries, Toni Morrison, Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, Ayn Rand, Add a tag
As the Occupy Wall Street protest continues, the activists camped out in New York City have built an impressive library. Thanks to Library Thing, you can now explore the library online and watch it grow.
Currently, the makeshift library counts 390 books. Follow this link to find out how you can donate. We’ve listed ten books from the library below, illustrating the scope of the collection. The Occupy Wall Street librarians also hope to schedule more author visits.
Here’s more from the library blog: Rather than having scheduled mega-events with activist authors coming to pep talk the whole occupation, I would prefer smaller, impromptu groups and a books-oriented approach to fit with our little niche mission. My idea is to ask authors to come talk about the “books that have inspired you” and then whatever else they want. We can post announcements in advance on a dry erase board and/or make an announcement when someone arrives. Then, whoever happens to be around can come check it out. If it’s only a few people, I see no problem with that. Whatever stimulates conversations, and huge groups don’t allow it so much. I feel this is a good role for our library.
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.
Add a Comment
By: Aaron Polson,
on 5/9/2011
Blog: The Other Aaron (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: great books, Stephen King, lord of the flies, william golding, Add a tag
One of the highlights of my Senior English course is teaching Lord of the Flies. It's often taught a younger ages in other schools, but I use it as a "send off" for seniors. Reading Lord of the Flies is the last thing we do in class.
Why I consider Lord of the Flies a "Great Book":
The degeneration of a band of British school boys stranded on a deserted island during wartime is a frightening mirror for all human endeavors. Selfishness, greed, egoism, violence--all the ugly depths of the human psyche are laid open when the stress of survival pushes the kids too far.
The book plays with the dichotomy of civilization and savagery. As a nice parallel, the boys hunt pigs--swine are known to turn feral rather quickly when left to their own devices.
And then there's that Nobel Prize...
Favorite Line (*spoiler alert*):
"And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of a man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy."
Sheer brilliance.
I, for one, am looking forward to Stephen King's introduction in the new edition celebrating the 100th anniversary of Golding's birth.
1 Comments on Great Books: Lord of the Flies, last added: 5/9/2011
Display Comments
Add a Comment
That is tough for sure. But I do agree with Lord of the Flies. i fell in love with that book when I read it as a kid, and it's always remained a fave.
Selected it because all of human life, development is there, P.K.
Oh, such a difficult choice to make. Your selection makes perfect sense.
Ah, it is difficult when one must choose between books! I've read Lord of the Flies, but not the other yet.<br /><br />Have a wonderful week! :)
Wonder what you would have chosen, Susan :0)
Thanks for being here, Karen, hope your week is a happy one.
Wow. I guess I'd need to know what books have won in the past first.
It would be hard to decide, but I think Lord of the Flies is a fabulous choice!
That is a hard choice to make, but I like your pick.
I think you made a great choice. I awarded you the sunshine award on my blog.
I just Google the past Nobel and Booker winners, Alex, and buy them in translation. In that way I get to read some amazing books :0)
Thanks, Cherie, always think the reversion to tribal behaviour in these 'modern' children is fascinating.
Oh, thank you so much, Murees, shall be over!
It was difficult, Christine, an impossible thing to do, really. So many to choose from.
The choices are too difficult. Maybe I'd throw the names in a hat and choose that way. LOL. Not very scientific, I know.
When you are faced with my spiritual director, you suddenly have the ability to make up your mind - and amazingly quickly, Joylene. :0)
I honestly don't think I could ever make this choice! I do think you selected an excellent one however!
Lord of the Flies is an amazing choice!<br /><br />www.modernworld4.blogspot.com
Thank you Meradeth, it is impossible,but he wanted an answer :0)
With my director demanding an answer, I tend to make up my mind very quickly, Gina :0)
Only one? I suppose I'd have to choose Tolkien. But it's so hard to pick only one!
Very hard indeed, Deniz, but you'd understand - if you met my Spiritual Director - how it was easy to make up my mind rather quickly. :0)
I like your choice, but it would be hard for me to narrow things down to one choice. I have so many favorites.
It was difficult, Medeia!